Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?

Its all in the fingers, or is it?

Moderators: Slowy, Capt. Black

User avatar
telefiend
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 1283
meble-kuchenne.warszawa.pl
Joined: Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:41 am
Location: Wellington
Has liked: 218 times
Been liked: 109 times

Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?

Post by telefiend »

I have this thing where dial in overdrive/distortion poorly and then play jazz vamps. Otherwise I sound like Jeff Buckley on a bad day.

Ears
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 1382
Joined: Sat Aug 02, 2008 10:06 pm
Has liked: 3 times
Been liked: 12 times

Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?

Post by Ears »

Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?

I should fucking hope so, or there is no point to my doing it.
"The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth". - Andres Segovia

slash-ed
Resident Gear Whore
Posts: 10032
Joined: Fri Jun 10, 2005 12:26 pm
Has liked: 97 times
Been liked: 424 times

Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?

Post by slash-ed »

Ears wrote:Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?

I should fucking hope so, or there is no point to my doing it.
Whoa, blast from the past!
Just a small town girl living in a lonely world

User avatar
willow13
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 14558
Joined: Sun Dec 19, 2004 2:36 pm
Location: If less is more then just think how much more more is
Has liked: 372 times
Been liked: 634 times

Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?

Post by willow13 »

slash-ed wrote:
Whoa, blast from the past!
same attitude to
If Less is More Then Just Think How Much More More would be

User avatar
StrummersOfThunder
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 7160
Joined: Sun Jul 15, 2012 2:23 pm
Has liked: 807 times
Been liked: 1294 times

Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?

Post by StrummersOfThunder »

No one can play drums 'quite like me' ...

User avatar
willow13
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 14558
Joined: Sun Dec 19, 2004 2:36 pm
Location: If less is more then just think how much more more is
Has liked: 372 times
Been liked: 634 times

Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?

Post by willow13 »

when I start playing I instantly know its me :rofl: :rofl:
If Less is More Then Just Think How Much More More would be

User avatar
Clanger
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 1173
Joined: Sun Sep 12, 2010 3:38 pm
Location: North Shore
Has liked: 152 times
Been liked: 51 times

Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?

Post by Clanger »

Playing like a bluesman, when having never listened, learned or had anything to do with blues.
Make Music Great Again

Ears
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 1382
Joined: Sat Aug 02, 2008 10:06 pm
Has liked: 3 times
Been liked: 12 times

Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?

Post by Ears »

willow13 wrote: same attitude to
Same attitude too.

[fify ]
"The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth". - Andres Segovia

User avatar
rickenbackerkid
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 6700
Joined: Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:52 pm
Has liked: 206 times
Been liked: 651 times

Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?

Post by rickenbackerkid »

I don't have anything unique that you can pick out and say, that's ben, but I do sound like me.

mostly what I do on electric come straight from acoustic guitar playing. So I big up chords, and dynamics and neck vibrato, and fingerpicking, but all on electric guitar, which is i guess a bit differnent from the many guys who use light strings and a normal pick, etc, etc.

User avatar
Olderama
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 7007
Joined: Sun Dec 22, 2013 8:04 pm
Has liked: 971 times
Been liked: 876 times

Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?

Post by Olderama »

I plug in
Get a notification from trade me
Unplug
Sell
:)
:mental:

User avatar
Molly
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 24937
Joined: Sat Dec 21, 2013 12:17 pm
Has liked: 2482 times
Been liked: 2794 times

Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?

Post by Molly »

Olderama wrote:I plug in
Get a notification from trade me
Unplug
Sell
:)
You can't really call that your own. ;-)

Mini Forklift

Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?

Post by Mini Forklift »

Haven’t read through this thread yet but yep, definitely have a few runs/licks that if you were listening to them you probably wouldn’t relate them to anything or anyone. They were a ‘happy accident’, trying to nail a lick and getting notes wrong in the process which I ultimately kept and reworked into my own thing.

Still sounds shit but at least it’s mine.

kwhelan
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 1400
Joined: Sun Oct 16, 2016 9:25 pm
Has liked: 123 times
Been liked: 93 times

Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?

Post by kwhelan »

few chords like that, probably have a name but more a happy accident than learnt

Mini Forklift

Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?

Post by Mini Forklift »

I guess this is all in the context of what Molly is trying to say, but most of the guys that I admire I can’t trace much (if anything) of their playing back to their influences. Examples...

Brian May always references Hank Marvin and Rory Gallagher as being huge influences... well penetrate me backwards but I struggle to hear either of those in his playing. Everything he plays sounds original

Steve Vai, numerous cited influences but he manages to sound like himself with no real perceivable nod to anyone. Oh and screw his circular vibrato too

Nuno, oh where to start. Well occasionally I think I hear a bit of Brian May type phrasing, but again all of his licks and playing seem to be completely his own

And finally... Hendrix. Where the holy mackerel did he come from. Can’t say I hear much T Bone Walker or anyone else when I listen to his music. I have wondered whether he would have sounded the same had Marshall not been around when he was.

I will get down from my soapbox now.

User avatar
Slowy
Vintage Post Junkie
Vintage Post Junkie
Posts: 22638
Joined: Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:13 pm
Location: Orcland
Has liked: 1011 times
Been liked: 2465 times

Re: Is there anything in your playing you can call your own?

Post by Slowy »

The gear I bang away on.
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.

Post Reply